You do understand a giant portion of American grocery stores are dedicated to raw, unprocessed meat right? Your comment makes you look ignorant. Yes we also have pre packaged DELI meat thatās highly processed that a lot of people buy. But itās not our only option. Iāve been to European grocery stores and you guys have just as much processed crap on the shelves as we do. So get off your high horse.
It's not about processing. It's about laws and regulation.
For starters, every slaughtered pig is in Germany being controlled by a vet and it's organs lab tested for parasites (Fleischbeschau). The vets are being employed by your local veterinary office to avoid conflict of interests.
Trichinella parasite infections are reportable by law. Statistics say, there is one infected pig in 100 million pigs. Every piece of meat is tracked, so if there is one infection basically the whole heard isn being culled and the farm is being mega-disinfected, like torched. There are around five human infections per year for a population of over 80 milion. Most of those infections are people consuming wild boars / people handling wild animals like vets, zookeepers.
At this point, the probability of being struck by a lightning is higher, or winning the lottery.
And as of now, you guys are dismantilng your food and safety standards even more, when I read about some random outbreaks in the US caused by raw veggies and what not. Yes, we also had our veggie-case (EHEC), but that was 15 years ago.
I understand what youāre saying and I agree. Our current administration is dismantling our already weak Food And Drug Administration and I hate it. Thereāve been so many food related outbreaks since this administration took over and itās disgusting. Iām envious of a lot of European countries that have implemented systems that actually look out for their people and arenāt dead set on doing whatever it takes to maximize profit. And there are lots of Americans that feel the same way. We arenāt just sitting here happily eating slop, feeling like shit, and being proud of it. Every day our ārepresentative democracyā feels less and less representative.
you jumped to one point and ignored my other point. the meat you get in europe is pure meat and not pumped with antibiotics. Even the regulations about animal feed are way harsher in europe. you love to eat shit in the us and you don't even know, that you eat shit.
Still brimming with ignorance I see. Thereās tons of meat products in the US that arenāt pumped with antibiotics. You just have to stay away from ultra processed crap and thatās your choice and you have to self educate. We have less regulations across the board yes. And thatās not really by choice. Politicians and the powers that be do what they do and we have to do the best we can to deal with it. There are organizations trying to change that.
And just so you know, businesses in Europe skirt regulations by calling chemicals and additives different things so you guys are still eating junk too. It just takes a while for legislation to catch up and ban those things too. ALL shelf stable food has been modified or prepared in a way thatās unnatural and can mess with your body.
I had this 200kg female colleague who would literally eat 500g of raw minced beef out of the supermarket container with a fork all the time between breakfast and lunch. Never seen anything like that before or after
Pork really isnāt that dangerous anymore, medium cooked pork is an actual option nowadays. even cooked pork is only recommended to 145/63 from 165/74
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u/Artevyx 8h ago
Of all the raw meats you could have chosen...